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Power and Electrical Engineering

Robotic Technology Inspired by Service Dogs for Enhanced Assistance

Service dogs, invaluable companions providing assistance to physically impaired individuals, are an elite and desired breed. Their presence in a home can make…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

China's Three Gorges Dam Provides New Opportunities for Farmers, Merchants

The level of water in the reservoir behind the dam will top off at 575 feet above sea level during the coming winter. The reservoir pool, covering abandoned…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists Devise Self-assembling “Organic Wires”

From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient’s body can’t discern the difference to devices that bypass injured…

Environmental Conservation

New Study Reveals Greenhouse Gas Levels Are Four Times Higher

A powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to a team of researchers at Scripps…

Life & Chemistry

Mapping Mobile Selfish Genes: Insights From Alu Retrotransposons

After starting out in our primate ancestors 65 million years ago, one type of repetitive DNA called an Alu retrotransposon now takes up 10 percent of our…

Studies and Analyses

New Leptospirosis Study Launched for California Sea Lions

The Marine Mammal Center is seeing a large number of leptospirosis cases in California sea lions this year and is leading a study to determine when and why the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Cattle fed distiller's grains maintain flavor and tenderness of beef

While much of the research focus has been on the energy value of the distiller's grains relative to the corn it replaces, recent questions have been posed on…

Studies and Analyses

Northeast Grasses for Bioenergy: Key Findings from Field Day

The experts hosted their first field day Sept. 10 to give farmers, government officials, extension educators and researchers the opportunity to view stands of…

Life & Chemistry

Silencing Protein May Enhance Leukemia Treatment Strategies

Researchers say the breakthrough could provide more efficient ways of targeting diseases such as leukemia, and help in the potential development of vaccines…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

No-Till Practices: How Soil Type Affects Nitrous Oxide Emissions

The practice of no-till has increased considerably during the past 20 yr. The absence of tillage coupled with the accumulation of crop residues at the soil…

Physics & Astronomy

Hybrid Memory Breakthrough: Tackling Key Quantum Computing Challenges

In the quantum world, objects such as atoms are allowed to exist in multiple states simultane-ously — that is, they could literally be in two places at once…

Life & Chemistry

Switchable Nanostripes: Advancing Storage with New Microstructures

In this information age, increased storage capacity is a central challenge for science and technology. A team of German and Italian researchers has pursued…

Automotive Engineering

University of Southampton Brings Supersonic Cars to Schools

World-leading experts in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton are working with the BLOODHOUND SSC team to develop exciting ways…

Health & Medicine

New Navigation System Empowers the Blind to Explore

Many of the most innovative systems have been created by a consortium of companies and research institutes working in the EU-funded ENABLED project.The project…

Medical Engineering

Sensitive Ultrasound Detects Early-Stage Cancer Accurately

Most of the current diagnostic methods – biopsy analysis, biochemical tests and medical imaging – are not sufficiently sensitive. They frequently return a…

Environmental Conservation

Seabass and Chips – Harnessing Science to Predict Ocean Climate Change

As an island off the Atlantic coast of Western Europe, Ireland is an ideal laboratory from which to study the effects of climate change on the oceans, which in…

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